| Reinstitutionalizing families: Life course policy and marriage in the military J Lundquist, Z Xu Journal of Marriage and Family 76 (5), 1063-1081, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| The Political Economy of Decollectivization in China Z Xu Monthly Review 65 (1), 17-36, 2013 | 49* | 2013 |
| China’s grain production Z Xu, W Zhang, M Li Monthly Review 66 (1), 25-37, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty Z Xu Monthly Review Press, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| Informal employment and China’s economic development Y Chen, Z Xu The Chinese Economy 50 (6), 425-433, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Are Chinese workers paid the correct wages? Measuring wage underpayment in the Chinese industrial sector, 2005-2010 Z Xu, Y Chen, M Li Review of Radical Political Economics 47 (3), 446-459, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Do black–white racial disparities in breastfeeding persist in the military community? J Lundquist, Z Xu, W Barfield, I Elo Maternal and child health journal 19, 419-427, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| The Chinese agriculture miracle revisited Z Xu Economic and Political Weekly, 51-58, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Economic surplus, the Baran ratio, and capital accumulation Z Xu Monthly Review, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| The development of capitalist agriculture in China Z Xu Review of Radical Political Economics 49 (4), 591-598, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| 生存工资, 超时劳动与中国经济的可持续发展 李钟瑾， 陈瀛， 齐昊， 许准 政治经济学评论 3 (3), 35, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
| Spatial shift in China's labor struggles: Evidence and implication Z Xu, Y Chen Journal of Labor and Society, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| The Ideology of Late Imperialism The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International Z Xu MONTHLY REVIEW-AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST MAGAZINE 72 (10), 1-20, 2021 | 11* | 2021 |
| Food Dependency and Global Food Crisis Z Xu International Critical Thought, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Decollectivization, collective legacy, and uneven agricultural development in China Z Xu World Development 98, 290-299, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| chinese Agrarian change in World-Historical context Z Xu Science & Society 78 (2), 181-206, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Commodification and Westernization: Explaining Declining Nutritional Intake in Contemporary Rural C hina Z Xu, W Zhang Journal of Agrarian Change 15 (3), 433-453, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
| Gender norms and household labor: time use in the context of social class differentiation in transitional China W Zhang, Z Xu Review of Radical Political Economics 54 (1), 106-121, 2022 | 5 | 2022 |
| Farm size, capitalism, and overuse of agricultural chemical in China Z Xu capitalism nature socialism, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| A living wage, overtime work and China’s economic sustainability Z Li, Y Chen, H Qi, Z Xu China Review of Political Economy 3 (3), 35-57, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
